Forum Snowboards is proud to announce the creation of Forum or Against’em, a high-definition, full-color film starring the influential members of the Forum team.Set to release in Fall 2008, Forum or Against’em will contain a compelling mixture of video imagery, documenting remarkable backcountry adventures, progressive urban exploits, and the notable times spent in-between.
Forum or Against’em will be Forum’s fifth, team video release, upholding the progression of an acknowledged process that has made legacy releases so noteworthy — including The Resistance, True Life, Video Gangs, and That.
Forum or Against’em will feature the riding of Peter Line, Joni Malmi, Eddie Wall, John Jackson, Pat Moore, Jake Blauvelt, Stevie Bell, Travis Kennedy, Jake Welch, Nic Sauve, and Daniel Ek with production and editing by Jeremy Pettit, Nathan Yant, Kurt Heine, and Mike Bishop.
got all that stuff from forumsnowboards.com and http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cz7nUZVKC9s
stay frosty - gnar
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Here is the new teaser from Autumn line “Technicolour”
Autumn Line’s Technicolour will be out this fall, and features Gabe Taylor, Jake Devine, Matt Hammer, Peter Benchetler, Ben Bilocq, Spencer Link, Scott Blum, Brendan Hayes, Brett Butcher, Greg Hahn, Cody Rosenthal, Eric Fernandez, Pat Lynch, Lance Machado, and more.
For blogs, videos, rider profiles and more, visit www.autumnline.com
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I was up at Breck for the last few days since they have shut all the lifts down as of Sunday afternoon. It could not have been better, going from 2 feet of blower pow on tuesday to perfect slushy spring time shredding by the weekend. Saturday was action packed all day, I did a bit of shooting with Colin Spencer who was wrapping up his park filming for the season. Alex Martini pulled some amazing in-air video work.
Shame they are closing with full coverage, prime parks and perfect pipe. Until next year.
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I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. I am happy to announce that Lost Energy “Official Sponsor” of etnies GvR Snow will be showcased on Fuel TV This evening!! Please see the press release below for air times throughout the month. In proud tradition of ‘Goofy vs Regular,’ sponsor Etnies takes this original contest to the mountains for the first-ever snow GvR. Pros enter an open jam vying for a position on either of the coveted teams, goofy or regular. Once the teams are locked in, competition begins with a lengthy jam format. Riders compete for their team to declare which side will reign supreme: Goofy or Regular?“Etnies GvR Snow” Air Dates:Monday 4/7/2008 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT
Monday 4/7/2008 11:00pm ET / 8:00pm PT
Wednesday 4/9/2008 12:30am ET/ 9:30pm PTFriday 4/11/2008 4:00pm ET/ 1:00pm PTSunday 4/13/2008 7:00pm ET/ 4:00pm PTTuesday 4/15/2008 8:30pm ET/ 5:30pm PTTuesday 4/15/2008 11:30pm ET/ 8:30pm PTSaturday 4/19/2008 9:30am ET/ 6:30am ETAbout FUEL TVFUEL TV is the action sports lifestyle network for skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, BMX, freestyle-motocross, and wakeboarding. A unit of Fox Cable Networks, FUEL TV was launched July 1, 2003 and is seen in 24-million U.S. homes. To subscribe to FUEL TV, call 877-4-FUEL-TV. For program times and other information, visit www.fuel.tv <http://www.fuel.tv/> <http://www.fuel.tv/> . Also, if you haven’t had a chance to check out the loads of media coverage from etnies GvR Snow, I have included some links for you to check out. http://www.transworldsnowboarding.com/article.jsp?ID=1000042750&typeID=140&categoryID=0 http://www.transworldsnowboarding.com/gallery.jsp?ID=1000016897 http://www.snowboard-revolution.com/news/Etnies-GvR-Results.html
http://www.snowboard-mag.com/node/29992
http://www.snowboardermag.com/features/news/gvr-goofy-regular-etnies/
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April 1st at Breckenridge has become a huge party day for all the local shreds. Its sick to see the whole snowboard scene together on one day having what seems the most fun you could have on the mountain. Hunting down a good set of retro gear, setting you stance back, maybe cutting a swallow tail, spraying everyone and everything in sight, and slashing like all the old school shredders is what its all about.
We were on the hill pretty early, the local holiday was still pretty low key but there was a good foot of fresh to be had. We headed directly for the T-bar and Imperial lift. After a short hike (around some very winded Welsh blokes) we had reached the summit of peak 8 with open powder fields in all directions. Once we had exhausted the new snow and some clouds rolled in we blasted our way to Park Lane. We were immediately surrounded by neon and snowblades, it was chaos. Constant soul trains with 2-4 people on a lip at any time, spread eagles, and the all mighty method were being thrown with screams of delight.
It was getting pretty dangerous in the park, after seeing more than a few wrecks we were thinking of calling it. Breck beat us to it. Soon the parks were closed to anyone wearing a “costume” and therefore empty except for the a few steezy shreders here and there, apparently the resort was not as stoked as the rest of us. Didn’t stick around to see the “gapers” unleashed on the rest of the mountain.
check my flickr page for more pictures
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BozWreck FOOL… WHAT. Forrest Shearer and Young Buck Cale Zima at Brighton. YAAA SON.
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Well ladies and gentleman, the time has come to show off your greatest tweak. It can win you some awesome prizes. Info is on the flyer, all entries need to be sent to
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A few riders and I drove down to Red Mountain pass to grab a few shots. Turned out that the snow was really baked. We managed to salvage a few spots before Jeff (Cormack) took a hit to the knee. With Partly torn LCL we drove back home.
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I had the chance to go back to the church rail that we did earlier this season, I tried to step it up this time. The snow literally melted out from underneath us as the sesh wore on. Fun one( click images to see larger)
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Unknown shredder Jordan Morrisette is right on Kegan’s heels taking the flying squirrel urban.
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When a friend of mine asked if I was interested in a road trip to out to California for a week, “hell yeah.” The plan was to leave friday morning and stop at Aspen’s big air event they hold at 3:00pm on fridays. Mark (Hoyt) and Colin (Spencer) were going to try to take the event and some extra cash for the trip. Turned out the locals made it to finals. We stopped at a bridge on the way out of town to see if it would be possible to hit real quick. We all agreed that after they both got a nose press we would roll out. They both landed the press after a few tries and started the switch press attempts. Colin came off the rail and caught his chin on his way down to the icy water. “we can go and get you stitches or get some glue and fix it right here, your choice.” Next Mark is on a quick trip to the kiwk-e-mart for some superglue and hydrogen-peroxide and soon enough we had the bleeding stopped and chin back together. On to Grand Junction.
We stayed the night in Grand Junction, picked up Bret a filmer for Cuff Productions. On the way we stopped at a random little town which was full of snow. Turned out there was a sweet little kink at the local Chiropractor’s office. Colin Landed a front board and we were off to stay the night in Reno. As we pulled into town we were in the middle of a 48hour storm, I have never seen snow flakes so big.
The next day we found a truck buried near a local mountain and gave it a good slashing with the help of our truck, it was still snowing into the night. We woke up to a perfect day, sprint to the backcountry…I wish. We got up there late but found some amazing cliffs and a few spots that would fill the next few days. The guys we were staying with had built a quarter-pipe, using the roof of the house as a drop in. Pretty fun to be able to sesh all night and work with the light and riders without worrying about getting booted.
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With the last dump of fresh snow being almost two weeks ago in the European Alps a powdertrip throughout Austria perhaps wasn’t the brightest of ideas. But, hey! The snow must go on and we just went a bit higher to get to those last bits of untracked freshness. Luckily a cold spell kept those tiny heavenly spaces a bit better than expected.
Anyway, since a photo says more than a thousand words, and I’m to lazy to write down a full report I thought a photostory might be in order. Please enjoy!
Silvretta Nova
First shot of the day, not a bad way to start out in the overtracked Silvretta Nova region. Bit of scary-ass hiking from Bas Elhorst was all it took.
A bit of black and white freshness, Bas Elhorst again.
A long easy hike, a few relaxing turns and finally: a nasty hike out of the bow. Anne-Fleur Eiff and Martine Veldhoen don’t mind at all. This was perhaps the last bit of untracked snow for miles around. Not any more!
Silvretta Nova actually has quite a good park for Euro standards. The wallride is particularly nice at the end of the day. Bas rocks to fakie.
St.Anton am Arlberg
The drive from Silvretta to Arlberg is a supernice, and not too long, one. Especially when the mountain pass is open (it hadn’t snowed for a while, remember!) you can enjoy some crazy views.
It’s extra fun by the way when the Volvo dealership lends you the new C30 T5, a small (not very practical with tons of snowgear but who cares) 250 horsepowered piece of metal that will set you back about 40.000 euro’s but manages to do a decent 230km/h on the highway with roofcarriers on it and three people and their bags in it…
Timo Hermeler and his girlfriend Irene Bauer live in this mountain paradise and managed to squeeze out some minute pieces of powder. Perhaps it wasn’t that smart to visit this place in the highest of high season…
Expensive resorts have expensive lifts… this whole thing lifts up the gondolas so you don’t have to take some stairs… whatever, it looks cool though!
Scary rocks don’t scare Timo.
I love backlight!
Anne-Fleur
Perhaps the smallest lift in Austria? It holds six people… just barely.
But the view is worth the cramped ride to the top of the Valluga. Normally a great place to find the last bits of fresh snow…
Some of those last bits…
Tijs Goossens in action on the Valluga.
And so is Timo.
So the day ends.
Mayrhofen
This place needs no introduction bus just as our luck had it: the pro-line was closed for some massive building action for the Ästhetiker Wängl Tängl in two weeks. Bummer!
Fortunately rookie Steef van de Meer doesn’t mind using the massive rail instead.
Ahhh… Mayerhofen park pizza.
Too much stuff and Gin&Tonic. It’s nice being a photographer!
No animals were harmed during the making of this Austrian funtrip, some snowboarders didn’t…
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Last night I met a few shredders at Ruby Hill, near downtown denver. I haven’t actually ridden the free park yet. Ruby’s goal is to make snowboarding accessible to more people. Its working, there are a lot of beginners shredding the boxes, they will have a great head start when they take it to the slopes. Ruby is like a gym for jibbing, I have never learned so much in so little time. I took the camera out after the lights shut down at 9pm. (the park is open till 11 though)
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